by | Sep 27, 2019 2:14 pm | Comments (23)
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Can you identify where the above pile of dirt is located?
Hint: It’s in the middle of a city where the landscape is transforming before our eyes amidst a years-long building boom. That means lots of big piles of dirt, for now.
by | Sep 26, 2019 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
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Aïcha Woods, Arlevia Samuel, Jonathan Hopkins at WNHH FM.
“C’mon already. Let’s fix this.”
New Haven has basically said that about the need for a long-overdue change in zoning rules — so that neighborhood commercial districts can come alive again and regain their former bustle.
Continue reading ‘Quest Continues To Revive “Gateway Corridors”’
by | Sep 25, 2019 5:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Presenter Clemons With Lindy Lee Gold, before the session.
We must suspend the “privilege” of complacency that nothing can be done; the privilege of empathy that makes us feel good but leads to no action; and the privilege of ignorance, especially of how deeply racism is at the heart of so much poverty.
Without this reflective new thinking, no matter how brilliant our employment, wages, or entrepreneurship program, we will never achieve an economy of true, lasting inclusive growth.
by | Sep 20, 2019 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
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The 4.5-acre site of the future development, at Tyler Street and Legion Avenue, where the coffee shop would be.
Builders want to add a small, six-seat coffee shop and bakery so residents of a ten-townhouse, 56-apartment community planned for long-vacant land at the far western end of the Route 34 Connector can grab a java before or after work.
Continue reading ‘Coffee Shop/ Bakery Pitched For Ghost Development’
by | Sep 19, 2019 2:13 pm | Comments (13)
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Local attorney Ben Trachten and engineer John Gable.
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To be a restaurant…in February!
Plans to convert a former Westville bank building into a restaurant serving tacos, ceviche, and mixed drinks won a key city sign-off, pushing the project that much closer to its planned completion date next February.
Continue reading ‘Bank-To-Restaurant Conversation Gets Sign-Off’
by | Sep 19, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (31)
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Skeptics testify: Ming-Yee Lin, Jayuan Carter, LTania Wiles (top row); Alexander Kolokotronis, Lillie Chambers, Patricia Kane (middle row); Mona Berman, Melissa Singleton, Johnny Shively.
Nearly two dozen critics of gentrification, market-rate housing, Yale expansion, and city-led planning initiatives stalled a rezoning project designed to rekindle commercial development along portions of Dixwell Avenue, Whalley Avenue, and Grand Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Gentrification Fears Stall Rezoning Quest’
by | Sep 18, 2019 9:49 pm | Comments (14)
Sandra Pittman in the restaurant.
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Hill soul food mecca seeks permission to rehab former garage for new 300-seat home.
by | Sep 18, 2019 1:35 pm | Comments (4)
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which pulled its headquarters out of New Haven in 2017 after receiving millions in government breaks ($28 million of which it returned), is now adding some jobs back to its 100 College St. tower.
by | Sep 17, 2019 9:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Spinnaker Director of Development Frank Caico. Below: The empty former Coliseum site.
A Norwalk-based developer kicked off an anticipated year-long community design process for the mix of residential, commercial, and office buildings that might soon fill the former Coliseum site by introducing the key dates, and key players, behind the project.
Continue reading ‘Coliseum Developer Prepares For Year-Long Design’
by | Sep 17, 2019 8:14 pm | Comments (3)
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Ray & Mike’s owner Raymond George with attorney Lisa Perkins after the sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill decided Tuesday to send a well-known deli owner to prison in order to “send a message” — that tax evasion is a serious crime with serious consequences.
by | Sep 5, 2019 2:03 pm | Comments (6)
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Phase-in clock starts: Construction worker at Audubon Square project.
The city’s economic development department has proposed an extension to the local tax assessment deferral program that would include three key modifications designed to boost tax collections and bolster affordable housing development while still using tax breaks to entice builders to come to town.
by | Sep 4, 2019 2:58 pm | Comments (1)
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Town Green’s Win Davis, Higgins, Carty, Mayor Harp cut the ribbon.
The Trinity Bar & Grill, which suffered a devastating fire two years ago, formally reopened for business Wednesday with a ceremonial mayoral ribbon cutting.
by | Sep 3, 2019 4:29 pm | Comments (35)
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Broadway: Chain-store “mall” without walls?
The man who rebuilt New Haven’s “new urbanist” downtown in the 1980s sounds an alarm about Yale’s subsequent retail rebranding.
by | Aug 27, 2019 3:11 pm | Comments (3)
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A sign unveiling Tuesday revealed a sight not seen in the city in 15 years: A “New Haven” bank, in name, and in concept.
by | Aug 16, 2019 7:26 am | Comments (5)
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Louis Roselli taking the sun in front of Arden House.
Louis Rosselli, a veteran of 23 years on the Hamden police force, has been living at Arden House for 11 years, and they treat him very well. Good thing: If anyone on the skilled nursing and rehab staff ever bothered him, he joked, he’d kick the crap out of them.
Nurse Sheryl Bergstresser said there is more love at Arden House than in a tier one hospital.
There’s a good chance the patient and the nurse won’t be able to continue there if, based on recent inspections and ratings, the state proceeds with plans to close Arden House, Hamden’s second largest employer, along with other homes around the state, due to declining numbers of patients in the beds and lower ratings in several evaluation categories.
by | Aug 15, 2019 2:41 pm | Comments (46)
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City officials, developers, and local business boosters embarked on an “investment tour” of the Ninth Square Thursday to showcase a host of new and planned projects designed to revitalize the southeastern corner of downtown.
by | Aug 8, 2019 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Homegrown lip glosser Zuiryliz Osorio at Grand Acres.
Zuiryliz Osorio put on some lip gloss for a crowd Wednesday night in a Fair Haven greenhouse— lip gloss she grew herself on the premises.
by | Aug 7, 2019 3:25 pm | Comments (7)
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Rastelli with the “FACS” machine.
It looks like a blue-tinted coffee maker with a toaster tucked underneath. It sounds like an old-fashioned fax machine.
In fact, it’s a FACS.
Make that “Flourescent Activated Cell Sorting” machine. It’s one of the favorite machines in the recently expanded labs of a Science Park-based start up on the verge of trials for a pioneering new way to treat multiple myeloma, an aggressive blood cancer, and potentially other diseases as well.
Continue reading ‘Biotech Spinoff Attracts Kudos, $$, In Quest For Cancer Drug’
by | Aug 7, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Ramona Campbell, manager of clothing store Citi Trends, anticipates more traffic from new Putnam Place tenants.
With the shriek of tearing metal and the groan of splintering wood, part of a shopping plaza in Hamden was demolished this week, set to be reborn in a form the owner says is better adapted to the changing habits of shoppers.
by | Aug 1, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (2)
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Cynthia Beth Rubin with one of her recent artistic creations.
Giulia Gouge and Susanne Radke.
Cynthia Beth Rubin went to The Grove to make art out of hazy images of plankton. Susanne Radke to share her scientific expertise with biotech companies. John Hoda to write seven books, and to build his own missing heir-tracking company.
Those erstwhile neighbors at the former Ninth Square co-working space gathered one more time Wednesday afternoon to celebrate and reminisce on the role that The Grove, subsequently rebranded Agora, played in their lives and careers before it closes for good later this week.
by | Jul 29, 2019 3:28 pm | Comments (34)
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LCI Executive Director Serena Neal-Sanjurjo and City Plan Director Aicha Woods.
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Grand Avenue as it points towards downtown.
City officials promised to examine the potential impact that a rezoning project might have on low-income black and brown communities as they move forward with longstanding retail revitalization plans for Dixwell, Whalley, and Grand Avenues.
by | Jul 25, 2019 6:01 pm | Comments (14)
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It hasn’t fully sunk in yet for Giulia Gouge that the coworking community where she grew her online business is closing its doors next week, leaving 16 entrepreneurs to find shared space elsewhere in town.
by | Jul 23, 2019 1:17 pm | Comments (10)
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Engineer Jeff Bord presents the Wendy’s site plan for 129 Amity Rd.
An Amity parcel previously slated to house a medical marijuana dispensary will instead be developed into a Wendy’s fast food restaurant.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:35 am | Comments (4)
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Ana De Los Angeles and her family celebrated the 10 year anniversary of their Westville cafe Manjares with the official grand opening of the coffee spot/restaurant’s bar, Manjares Tapas, and a block party as a thank-you gift to the neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Manjares Celebrates 10 Years With New Bar’
by | Jul 18, 2019 11:58 am | Comments (2)
One of the common refrains about the State of Connecticut is that it is perfectly situated between New York City and Boston, two cities that need no introduction on an international scale.